They arrived under the cover of darkness. Two juvenile whale sharks, named Ralph and Norton after characters in “The Honeymooners” sitcom, landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport around midnight in June 2005.
Submerged underwater in fiberglass tanks fitted with filtration systems and sensors to monitor oxygen, temperature and salinity, they were bound for their new home at Georgia Aquarium, where they would make history as the first whale sharks ever displayed outside Asia.
